Receptacle for signal flags, fuses, and torpedoes.



PATENTED FEB.- 19,1907.

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APPLICATION FILED JANA, 1907.

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ROBERT F. STEWART, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

RECE PTACLE FOR SIGNAL FLAGS, FUSES, AND TORPEDOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

Application filed anuary 4,1907. Serial No. 350,838.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT F. STEWART, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain ient device for safely. and accessibly storing in the cab of a locomotive signal-flags, both unmounted and mounted on staffs, emergency signal-fuses, and detonating signaltorpedoes.

A construction embodying my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the receptacle. Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof on the line 00 0c of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line y y of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a detail section on the line 2 z of Fig. 1.

. In the construction shown I provide a rectangular sheet-metal casing 1, to which at the lower side thereof, is attached the sheetmetal cylinder 2, which is of a length greater than the width of the casing 1 and is closed at the ends by caps 3, as shown. The open front of the casing 1 is covered by the flanged lid 4, which is hinged at the upper side of the casing and is swingable outwardly therefrom, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. In the front and upper side of the cylinder 2 is a longitudinally-extending opening of a length slightly less than the width of the casing 1. The curved outwardly-extending apron 5 on the lid 1 fits over said opening in the cylinder and normally closes the same. A looped ear or lug 6 is riveted on the apron 5,.said lug 6 being engageable by a fastening device consisting of the rod 7, longitudinally slidable in the looped lugs 8, riveted on the cylinder.

In the cylinder 2 at the position 9 (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1) is a partition which divides the cylinder-into two compartments, the longer of which is accessible through the opening normally closed by the apron 5. The shorter compartment is provided with a slidable door 10, held by guides 11, the said door being provided with a flange 12 for pulling the same open and having an inwardly-extending in 13 thereon to prevent it beingpulled entirely out of the guides.

The shorter compartment is used for the storage of torpedoes, which may be laid loosely therein, as shown at A in Fig. 4. In the longer compartment are placed fuses B, as shown in Fig. 2, the length of said compartment being made such that the fuses may fit snugly therein and the igniting-ca s thereof be prevented from becoming etached from the fuse-body.

In the casing 1, near the upper end thereof, are a number of spring-clips 14., adapted to hold unmounted signal-flags O, the same depending from the clips, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. On the lid 4 are spring-clips 15, adapted to hold in a horizontal position the signal-flags C when mounted on the staffs D.

On the back of the casing 1 are secured the laterally-projecting plates 16, which are provided with screw-holes 17 for convenience in securing the receptacle at a suitable position in the locomotive-cab.-

Now, having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 1. In a device of the class described, a rectangular sheet-metal casing, a horizontallydisposed sheet-metal cylinder secured thereto, there being a longitudinally-extending opening in the cylinder adjacent the casing, a flanged lid hinged on the casing, an apron on said lid adapted to close the opening in the cylinder, and means on the apron for securing the lid in closed position.

2. In a device of the class described, a rectangular sheet-metal casing, a sheet-metal cylinder secured thereto, there being a longitudinally-extending opening in the cylinder adjacent the casing, a lid hinged on the casing, an apron on said lid adapted to close the opening in the cylinder, spring-clips disposed within the casing and adapted to retain therein unmounted signal-flags, and spring-clips secured on the outside of the hinged lid and adapted to retain thereon in horizontal position signal-flags mounted on staffs.

3. In a device of the class described, a rectangular sheet-metal casing, a horizontallydisposed sheet-metal cylinder secured thereto, a lid hinged on the casing, the cylinderbeing partitioned into two compartments each having openings thereinto through the side of the cylinder, a slidable door for closing one of said compartments, an apron on the easing- In testimony whereof I have hereunto sublid for closing the opening to the other of said scribed my name in the presence of two Wit 1o clzrnpartmenti, spring-flips disposled Within i nesses.

t e casing an ada tec to retain tlerein un- 1 mounted signal-flags, and spring-clips dis- ROBERT posed on the outside of the lid. and adapted. to I itnesses:

retain thereon in horizontal position signal- G. A. ROFF,

flags mounted on stafls. D. O. BARNELL. 

